Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . may be received in a stage-coach wliich performs the whole journey in thirteen days, without any stoppage (if God permit), having eighty able horses to perform the whole stage. Each [ passenger paying ^£4 los. for the whole journey, i6 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Canongate. alowing each 20 lbs. weight, and all above to pay6d. per lb. The coach sets oft at six in the morn-ing. Performed by Henry Harrison, Nich. Speighl,Rob. Garbe, Rich. Croft. \\hen we consider the cost of food on a thirteendays journe)-, the fees to success
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . may be received in a stage-coach wliich performs the whole journey in thirteen days, without any stoppage (if God permit), having eighty able horses to perform the whole stage. Each [ passenger paying ^£4 los. for the whole journey, i6 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Canongate. alowing each 20 lbs. weight, and all above to pay6d. per lb. The coach sets oft at six in the morn-ing. Performed by Henry Harrison, Nich. Speighl,Rob. Garbe, Rich. Croft. \\hen we consider the cost of food on a thirteendays journe)-, the fees to successive guards anddrivers, the small allowance of luggage, and the Canongate, every other Tuesday. In the winterto set out from London and Edinburgh everyother Monday morning, and to go to Burrowbridgeon Saturday night; and to set out from thence onMonday morning, and to get to London and Edin-burgh on Saturday night. Passengers to pay asusual. Performed (if God permits) by )Our dutiful. THE CANONG.\TE— EASTWARD OF PLAN ON PAGE 5. (From Gordon 0/RothUmays8, Moray Ifouse; 30, Canongate Cross ; 32, Canongate Tolbooth. Ma/..) overcharge, the contrast of travelling in the daysof Anne and Victoria seems great indeed. In July, 1754, the Edinhnrgli ri/z/v?///advertisesthe stage-coach, drawn by six horses, with a pos-tillion on one of the leaders, as a new, genteel,two-end glass machine, hung on steel springs;exceeding light and easy, to go in ten days insummer and twelve in winter, setting out fromHosea Eastgates, at the Coach and Horses, DeanStreet, Soho, and from John Somervilles, in the servant, Hosea Eastgate. Care is taken of smallparcels, according to their value. A few years before this move in the way of pro-gress, the Canongate had been the scene of a littlereligious persecution; thus we find that on aSunday in the April of 1722 the Duchess Dowagerof Gordon, Elizabeth Howard, daughter of theDuke of Norfolk, venturing to have mass cele-brated at her ho
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